Door-guard.



No. 673,703. Patented May 7, mm.

L. H. nAvls & ,1. u. DOYLE.

noon GUARD.

(Application filed Sept. 24, 1900.

(No Model.) 'I

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LYMAN H. DAVIS, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, AND JOHN D. DOYLE, OF NASHVILLE,TENNESSEE.

DOOR-GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 673,703, dated May '7,1901.

Application filed September 24, 1900. Serial No. 30,916. (No model.)

To all whom it Wtcty concern.-

Be it known that we, LYMAN H. DAVIS, residing at Newport, in the countyof Campbell and State of Kentucky, and JOHN D. DOYLE, residing atNashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee, citizens ofthe United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDoor Guards, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improved doorguard for stalls, one objectbeing to provide a perfectly sanitary guard admitting of perfect aircirculation and light.

Another object of our invention is that-the guard shall be of flexiblematerial, thus preventing injury to the animal and allowing the guard tobe readily erected and removed and to be shipped knockdown.

Another object of our invention is to make this guard cheap and durableand also to make it adjustable, to be used with differentwidth stalls.

The features of our invention are more fully set forth in thedescription of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, in which Figure 1 is a front view of our invention,showing our improved guard in one of its positions for use. Fig. 2 is asectional view of one of the strips of the guard, illustratinganother'position of attachment. Fig. 3 isa sectional view of one of thecross-strips.

This guard is more particularly designed for use in stalls to beoccupied by race-horses, in which the greatest precautions are alwaysexercised to provide perfect sanitation and to eliminate all possibleelements of danger to the animal.

This improved guard may be used either in connection with the ordinarystall-door or separately. lVhen separately used it may be attached tothe sides of the stall, as shown in Fig. 1; but the preferred method isto attach the guard to the inside of the door-jamb, as shown in Fig. 2.

Ourimproved guard A preferably consists of strips of webbing interlaced,woven, or crossed in any desired manner to suit the vertical andhorizontal dimensions which may be desired. In the form shown,arepresents vertical strips of webbing, and 5 horizontal strips ofwebbing; The ends of the horizontal strips are passed through the slidesa, passing around the central tie-rod d of said slides. The ends of thehorizontal strips are then passed through the eyesf of the snaphooks g.Other suitable fastening devices having an eye on the inner ends couldbe employed. The ends of these horizontal strips are then turned backand secured, respectively, to the vertical strips at each side of theguard and to the tie-rods clof the slides c. hrepresents ordinaryeyelets screwed or stapled into the door-jamb of the stall upon eachside, with which the snap-hooks e'ngage. The ends of the horizontalstrips are thus con verted into loops 1', containing the snap-hooks, thelength of the loops being varied by manipulating the slides to givegreater or less width of guard, according to the width of the door towhich the guard is to be applied.

When it is desired to open this guard, the fastening devices upon oneside are detached, whereupon the guard will collapse and be suspended bythe fastening devices on the other side out of the way and offering noimpediment or element of danger in the stall. It is obvious that thisidea could be applied to the vertical strips of Webbing, so that it,

could be adjustable both ways or only in-one direction, as desired.

There are many advantages arising from the use of this guard which willbe readily appreciated by persons employed in keeping fine animals, thecombined strength, cheapness, lightness, durability, freedom fromdanger, and flexibility contributing to make what We regard as vastlysuperior to any stall-door guard ever before put into use.

Having described our invention, we clai m 1. A stall-door guard composedof strips of webbing stretched horizontally across the stall-door,transverse strips of webbing attached to the horizontal strips at theirpoints of intersection, a series of fastening devices upon each sideadapted to engage with a series of eyelets secured to the sides of thestall, substantially as specified.

2. A stall-door guard composed of strips of Webbing stretchedhorizontally across the stall-door, transverse strips of webbingattached to the horizontal strips at their points of intersection, theends of said horizontal strips being provided with loops, a series offastening devices slidably secured to the loops and adapted to engagewith a series of eyelets in the sides of the stall, and means foradjustingthe length of said loops, substantially' as specified.

3. A stall-door guard composed of strips of webbing stretchedhorizontally across the stall-door, transverse strips of webbingattached to the horizontal strips at their points of intersection, aseries of slides provided with eyelets adjustably secured to thehorizontal strips, and a series of eyelets attached to the sides of thestall-door adapted to be engaged by the said adjustable eyelets Wherebythe device may be applied to stalls of various lateral dimensions,substantially as specified.

4:. A stall-door guard composed of strips of Webbing stretchedhorizontally across the stall-door, transverse strips of Webbingattached to the horizontal strips at their points of intersection, saidhorizontal strips having adjustable slides and fastening devices securedto the ends thereof, and a series of eyelets attached to each side ofthe stall-door adapted to be engaged by the said fastening devices,substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands.

LYMAN H. DAVIS, JOHN D. DOYLE. Witnesses:

OLIVER B. KAISER, PEARL MOMICHAEL.

